If your idea of living life in the fast lane means driving cars literally in the fast lane up to a speed that can blow road signs off, then you can be sure to shout your heart out over the new Forza Motorsport 3.

The latest sequel to the Forza Motorsport series, Forza keeps it reputation as one of the best and most popular racing simulator video game developed for Xbox 360, improving its images and frame rate – a whopping 60 frames per second - down to the last detail that the only thing from letting you think it’s the real thing is that there is no wind to blow your hair away.

Turn 10 Studios, the developer of the game, has really outdone themselves this time by making the game more approachable and less intimidating even to those who has the least “drive” for it.

Available:  Xbox 360

Forza 3 has expanded its car selection lists to over 400 cars by 50 manufacturers, and not one of them will fail any drive test. And the cool thing about it is that all the cars in the selection are unlocked even at the beginning. You can get your hands on these cars as a reward, free of charge, when you win a lot of races, or by earning a lot of dough so you can buy them.

Other racing games will leave you no choice but to start out with a hunk of junk and earn your way in before you can drive the faster ones. But Forza 3 does away with that concept. Yes, as with other racing games, you start out with a more modest car, but you can be sure that having an Audi R8 as your first car is a pretty sweet deal. Add the fact that you also have a few driving assists, like traction control and auto-braking, available.

But of course, turning off the assist also has its perks. For example, if you think you can win without the auto-brake, you can get 10 percent more winnings if you win the race. This can definitely help you stack up your money – if you don’t have to pay much for the damage fix-up. Forza 3 also allows you to fine-tune your car, either by an auto-tune assist, or doing it yourself.

Not all people who are into cars are into driving them, and Forza 3 meets that diversity by adding in a feature that lets people design and paint their car any way they can. They can even design some images that can be pasted on the roof or on the hood.

And the great thing about Forza Motorsport 3 is it is online-enabled, meaning, you can choose from a lot of designs from people who sell theirs at the online storefront. Because of this, Forza 3 added in a scoreboard not just for the fastest racers, but also for the best painters/designers and car tuners around.

Also, because the game is online-enabled, you can change from a single-player gameplay to a multiplayer mode, inviting in as many a 7 friends to race against. Career mode takes you the world championships seasons that involves several races, with breathtaking background settings from all over the world. You can even put your game to a pause and take a photograph of the scenery on the replay mode.

Further features to the simulation are the in-car visual and real-time tire deformation, adding newer depth of knowledge about how your cars can go when driven at a certain way. Cars can also turn over – not that you want that to happen.

Forza Motorsport 3 sits comfortably as the racing game of hardcore racing gamers, but still caters to the newbies who just want to give it a spin. If you are tempted to enter the world of race simulators, why bother with other games when you know you can get the best from Forza Motorsport 3?

If you crave exciting and the most realistic racing action available, Forza Motorsport 3, will make an awesome addition to your collection.

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